formFF use &scrfile alias screen temp.tmp temp.tmp temp.tmp m.outstr = left(m.str, m.k+3) + alltrim(str(m.i)) + chr(m.j+asc("A"))) + m.after temp.tmp temp.tmp DBFILE LETTER SCRFILE SCREEN OBJTYPE VALID STRINDEX AFTER OUTSTR BIGSTR STRINDEX c:\ada\ verify3.fxp c:\ada\verify3.prg